Billy Bob Thornton throws CBC Joaquin Phoenix like fit
Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Austin
The talented Mr. Billy Bob Thornton now has a new facet to his performing career – Acting like a jerk!
During an appearance yesterday on the Canadian CBC-Radio show, ‘Studio Q,’ the host, Jian Ghomeshi, casually mentioned Bill’s enviable past as ‘an Oscar-winning Actor, Writer and Director’ at which point Bill, 53, lost any trace of the plot.
The point of the meet was to discuss Billy’s band, ‘The Boxmasters.’ and plug their new album. But when his acting career was briefly mentioned instead Bill closed up like a petulant clam, according to the scribes at TMZ. From that point on his entire involvement was said by insiders to be obtuse and obstructive.
Showing laudable patience, Ghomeshi asked several questions regarding Bill’s past, and each answer was brief and indignant. One softball query regarded Bill’s musical influences in his Arkansas childhood, to which Bill responded with a long, rambling tale about entering a contest in a monster magazine. Finally, after what must have been a nerve-shredding trial for the host, Bill and his band were supposed to play live. Instead, Bill claimed he’d forgotten his drums and walked right out the door!
Bill’s people have since explained to reporters that the ’star’, best known for his screenplay and acting debut in the 1997 hit, ‘Sling Blade.’ which won him his Oscar, had chosen “not to engage with the interviewer because of the interview’s direction,” and that “he now takes any reference to his movie career as an insult to his musical work.”
Some so-called stars are known as ungrateful, but this just borders on ill-natured spite.
I was once a Billy Bob fan. After yesterday’s debacle, I can honestly not find one good reason to remain a fan. He insulted Canada, he insulted Canadians in the most deliberate of ways, he was obstinate, he had absolutely no respect for a great journalist, Jian, he was utterly hopeless as far as appealing to the Canadian masses, and he deserves no respect. Willie Nelson should be pissed off and kick him off his tour. What, so Billy Bob’s only met Willie briefly? “He’s a nice guy”? WTF? I thought Billy Bob, of all the Hollywood bimbos and assholes that reign, was somehow different. But no. He comes to Canada on tour, stonewalls one of the best journalists Canada has ever seen, and pouts like a little crybaby about the fact Jian mentions in a single line (i.e. accolade) that Billy Bob is a revered actor. F**k Billy Bob if he a) won’t accept that praise and b) throws it back in Jian’s face like he’s a piece of shit to be thrown to the gutter. Fuck Billy Bob. I’m officially boycotting both his music and his now pathetic acting career. Eat shit Billy Bob. You deserve no better.